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Using Web Browser
For several years, the Web remained a tool used by scientific researchers. But in 1993,
developers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) created
Mosaic, a point and click Web browser. A Web browser is a software application designed to
find hypertext documents on the Web and then open the documents on the user’s computer.
Commonly used web browsers are Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, etc.
Launching Your Browser
You may need to connect to the Internet before launching the INTERNET
browser. Once you have established a connection, launch your browser
by following these steps:
Step 1: Click on the Start button on the taskbar. 101
Step 2: Click on the browser app such as Microsoft Edge. The Launching a Web
Microsoft Edge window will appear. Browser
If you could write a blog post that would be read by every person in the world,
what message or story would you share?
Using URLs
You have learnt in the previous class that every Web page has a unique address, called a
Uniform Resource Locator, or URL. URLs help you to navigate the web. When you provide
a URL to the browser, the browser finds that URL’s Web page and then transfers the Web
page to your PC. The content of the web page then appears in the Web browser window.
You can specify a URL in several ways, but two methods are commonly used:
Using Address Bar
To access a webpage by URL, follow these simple steps:
Step 1: Type the URL in the browser’s Address bar.
Step 2: Press the Enter key from the keyboard.
Suppose, you want to visit the wikipedia. To do this, you can type www.wikipedia.org in the
Address bar and then press Enter key. The home page of Google Wikipedia in the browser
window will appear.

